From carefully rearranging my Barbie dolls as a child in a specific order to managing my life as a full-time student who volunteers and engages in a plethora of hobbies today, I’ve always had a knack for staying organized. People see how complex my organization system is, but the truth is keeping things organized is rather simple, and it won’t look like multiple planners, fancy apps, and aesthetically-pleasing desks. The best system is the system that works for you.
This guide is very generalized as opposed to specific and practical. It’s meant to serve as a starting point or guideline of sorts to broadly cover considerations that need to be made when creating an organization system.
Here, I’ll break down step by step what I think you would need to stay organized and recommend tools and resources that I currently use or have used in the past. You’ll see glimpses of my system, too, but you should develop your own from the ground up.